Tak is the ARP version of Atago. Disable the ARP view and you will see the ships as their tech tree counterpart.

There are two levels of this. If you click on the eyeball, it removes the funky colors (used to know a better phrase for that, but it completely escapes me now) but the ships themselves remain visible. If you click the check box (unchecked) they simply do not appear in your port.

As for why OP got a battle report for Atago instead of ARP Takao, sorry - wish I knew what was going on there. It may just be that they use the Atago/Kongo base code for each of the ARP ships, so that's how they report? It's been so long since I played one, I can't remember.

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There are two levels of this. If you click on the eyeball, it removes the funky colors (used to know a better phrase for that, but it completely escapes me now) but the ships themselves remain visible. If you click the check box (unchecked) they simply do not appear in your port.

As for why OP got a battle report for Atago instead of ARP Takao, sorry - wish I knew what was going on there. It may just be that they use the Atago/Kongo base code for each of the ARP ships, so that's how they report? It's been so long since I played one, I can't remember.

Yes. And half the class (Atago, Maya) was sunk by US submarines on the way to Leyte Gulf, while Takao limped back to Singapore and never left it after that, afaik. Chokai was sunk off Samar in the fight with Taffy 3.

A whole ship class sunk or crippled within a couple days.

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For what little its worth, I wish that WG would give the ARP ships a minor tweak in this small regard. I'm no fan of these anime ships, though I have all but the Takao (was unavailable to play that campaign, sadly). But it stinks that you can't change the camo to put a more useful one on it. At the barest minimum, it might be nice if the ARP skin/camos gave the ARP ships the two basic camo buffs. Or alternatively, it might be nice if you could mount any camo on the ARP ships to gain those benefits, even if you couldn't SEE them on the ship and only saw the ARP skin.

Kinda stinks having a ship that is actually sort of worse than the tech tree equivalent because you can't mount any camo other than the ARP skin and as such are denied the benefits of said camos.